Cruise to star in Singer's WWII movie. Critiquing the fast-food industry from top to bottom, Fast Food Nation effectively seeks to do for the franchise restaurant what Syriana did for the oil industry, with Linklater introducing us to a vast array of characters, from Greg Kinnear's increasingly conflicted marketing executive to Wilmer Valderrama's Mexican immigrant, who finds himself working in a hellhole of a slaughterhouse. Critiquing the fast-food industry from top to bottom, Fast Food...

The ailment has killed off tens of thousands of honeybee colonies in Iowa and at least 20 other states, threatening the livelihood of commercial beekeepers. Theories about its cause include environmental change, malnutrition, pathogens, mites, pesticide contamination, disease or genetically modified crops. They pollinate crops as varied as California's almonds and the alfalfa that beef cattle eat, Ennis said. There is a tomato that has a gene in it from an Artic fish to help the tomato...

This price is the statewide average retail price by motor fuel type as compiled by the Energy Information Agency of the US Department of Energy, the Oil Pricing Information Service, or a similar reliable published index less taxes impose by the first motor fuel tax. This price is the statewide average retail price by motor fuel type as compiled by the Energy Information Agency of the US Department of Energy, the Oil Pricing Information Service, or a similar reliable published index less...

There are so many in town and in the valley that are involved in some kind of agriculture, he said. In fact, it wasn t until 1969 and two failed attempts to pass a resolution, that a vote passed to allow full membership rights and benefits to women, according to the Department of Agriculture s Web site. One of the board s objectives was promoting agriculture training in secondary schools. He was inaugurated as vice president at the chapter s awards banquet Friday night in Olathe. According...

Though ornithologists say the "guilt" of birds has not been proven, fears of a new "plague" seem to be overriding common sense. Why not? A machine-gun was once designed in the United States especially to shoot migratory passenger pigeons, and in 1899 this species of bird was successfully exterminated. The same is recommended in a letter from the Russian Veterinary Supervision Agency to local authorities: "In population centers situated near the shores of reservoirs where migratory birds...